Folkways
Subtitle: a study of mores, manners, customs and morals
By: William Graham Sumner.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 692
Subjects: Manners and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 655-670) and index.
Originally published: Boston : Folkways: a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals : Ginn, 1907.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS OF THE FOLKWAYS AND OF THE MORES; title: II. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MORES; title: III. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE; title: IV. LABOR, WEALTH; title: V. SOCIETAL SELECTION; title: VI. SLAVERY; title: VII. ABORTION, INFANTICIDE, KILLING THE OLD; title: VIII. CANNIBALISM; title: IX. SEX MORES; title: X. THE MARRIAGE INSTITUTION; title: XI. THE SOCIAL CODES; title: XII. INCEST; title: XIII. KINSHIP, BLOOD REVENGE, PRIMITIVE JUSTICE, PEACE UNIONS; title: XIV. UNCLEANNESS AND THE EVIL EYE; title: XV. THE MORES CAN MAKE ANYTHING RIGHT AND PREVENT CONDEMNATION OF ANYTHING; title: XVI. SACRAL HARLOTRY, CHILD SACRIFICE; title: XVII. POPULAR SPORTS, EXHIBITIONS, DRAMA; title: XVIII. ASCETICISM; title: XIX. EDUCATION, HISTORY; title: XX. LIFE POLICY, VIRTUE VS. SUCCESS.